Pauli Kettunen
Professor Emeritus of Political History in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include nationalism and globalization, labour history and social movements, Nordic welfare states and working-life institutions, education politics, and the conceptual history of politics.
Grete Brochmann
Professor at the University of Oslo - Department of Sociology and Human Geography. Her main research field is international migration, European immigration policy, comparative integration policies in welfare states and in the Nordic region as well as historical studies of immigration to Norway. She chaired the Norwegian Welfare and Migration Committee, the so-called Brochmann Committee.
Ferruh Yilmaz
Associate professor at the Tulane University, Department of Communication. His main research interests include immigration, the social and political landscapes in Europe-focus on Denmark, discourse analysis and culturalization of discourse, media and political change.
Christian Albrekt Larsen
Professor at Aalborg University, Centre for Comparative Welfare Studies at the Department of Politics and Society (CCWS). His research fields include “the Nordic model”, welfare societies with open economies and multicultural settings, national identity and migrants, politics of welfare reforms, migration and assimilation in Northern Europe.
Jørgen Goul Andersen
Professor at Aalborg University, Centre for Comparative Welfare Studies at the Department of Politics and Society. His research interests include Nordic welfare states, labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship, nationalism, economic policy and Danish politics in general.
Mattias Tesfaye
Minister for Immigration and Integration. Member of the Folketing for The Social Democratic Party in Greater Copenhagen greater constituency from June 18th 2015.
Candidate for The Social Democratic Party in Brøndby nomination district from 2014.